On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Venkatesh Hariharan spake thusly:
I'll go across to Mumbai University and speak to them. I guess Nagarjuna's words will also carry a lot of weight due to his academic credentials.
Hold on folks .. :(
The news that the Univ. of Mumbai had purchased a site licence for MS Office is erroneous. They were /considering/ to buy one. And people assume that they already have purchased and are are using pirated copies thinking they are legal. But many departments are not averse to purchase a departmental copy of software for which open alternatives exist.
But it is true that all the new centrally acquired machines (from HCL) I think are preloaded with XP. This I have seen personally.
Further, if you do make any enquiries, please dont make any references to my dad's as it would mean a difficult situation at home for me ;) But I am with you all the way.